Maniphest T178499

Historical diffs show lots of unrelated reference changes
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	• Elitre
	Oct 18 2017, 1:45 PM

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Verbatim.
Steps to reproduce

Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike_Pence&type=revision&diff=739463819&oldid=739448261&visualdiff&diffmode=visual
Scroll down to reference area
Expected

Only show two references being removed

Actual

More than 30 references are being shown as added / changed.

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Mentioned In: T178498: Historical diffs shows unchanged references as "changed"

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• Elitre created this task.Oct 18 2017, 1:45 PM

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There's a ton of weirdness with references in historical diffs. Perhaps we need a long, hard stare at the code to see why this is.

• Deskana mentioned this in T178498: Historical diffs shows unchanged references as "changed".Oct 18 2017, 1:53 PM

• Deskana merged a task: T178498: Historical diffs shows unchanged references as "changed".

• Deskana set the point value for this task to 8.

• Elitre awarded a token.Oct 18 2017, 3:03 PM

Tchanders closed this task as a duplicate of T187613: Historic visual diff displays change completely unrelated to actual change.Feb 24 2018, 6:00 PM